Learning to Spell

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. We remember the pupils who were able to spell these difficult words, and we forget those who were unable to spellthem. We remember the good spellers and forget how many poor ones there were. The question is not whether one or two could spell, or learn to spell such words, but could nearly every pupil in the school spell such words? If they could, what use did they make of their knowledge? The corollary to the proposition is, how many were unable to spell which.